Director: Gene Deitch
Release Date: December 1962
Stars: Tom & Jerry
Rating: ★
Review:
Tom chases Jerry into an opera house, with remarkably unfunny results, making ‘Carmen Get It’ probably the worst of all concert cartoons.
This is a sad irony, because Tom & Jerry are also responsible for one of the all time best: ‘The Cat Concerto‘ (1947).
‘Carmen get it’ was the last of the Gene Deitch Tom & Jerries, a poor and unfunny series of cartoons, which during their short existence never came even near the quality of the original ones by Hanna and Barbera. Gene Deitch had outlasted its welcome within one year and moved over to produce cartoons for Paramount, directing a.o. Popeye and Krazy Cat cartoons.
Tom & Jerry were already revived once again the next year, by Chuck Jones, whose Tom & Jerry cartoons were to be a great improvement on Gene Deitch’s ones, albeit nowhere near the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons…
Watch an excerpt from ‘Carmen Get It’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is Tom & Jerry cartoon No. 127
To the previous Tom & Jerry cartoon: Buddies Thicker than Water
To the next Tom & Jerry cartoon: Penthouse Mouse
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June 10, 2011 at 20:05
Jason Marshall
It has been hurting my heart to see your negative appraisals of the Tom and Jerry cartoons. I have fond childhood memories of them, though I just watched “Carmen Get It” (one I don’t have a particular memory of) and I have to admit you are right. It stinks. It’s not funny (at all) and even some of the references are soooo out of date, like the reference to the Deanna Durbin concert film “100 Men and a Girl” from 1937! They didn’t have anything more timely to reference in 1962?
June 11, 2011 at 22:05
Gijs
Dear Jason Marshall,
Thanks for your comment. I’m not negative about Tom & Jerry themselves, I highly regard the Tom & Jerry cartoons made by Hanna and Barbera. However, the thirteen made by Gene Deitch come nothing near the originals in quality, that’s why I call his Tom & Jerry cartoons a poor series.
June 11, 2011 at 22:35
Gijs
By the way, thanks for mentioning the reference! I must admit, it was unknown to me.